1. Surviving the Applewhites Vocabulary Chapters 5-8

2. Vocabulary Words Chapter 5  fragile (p. 33)  complicated (p. 36)  juvenile (p. 41) Chapter 6  inedible (p.42)  exaggeration (p. 47)  collided (p. 47)  sentimental (p. 47)  careened (p. 51) Chapter 7  deluge (p. 53)  brink (p. 53) Chapter 8  perpetuate (p. 66)  invasion (p. 66)  ferociously (p. 67)

3. fragile ( ADJECTIVE ) First of all she wouldn’t trust a kid like that with something as beautiful and fragile as a butterfly. Chapter 5 p. 33

4. complicated ( ADJECTIVE ) … Archie carving a series of complicated lines and squiggles into the legs of a turtle-shaped object. Chapter 5 p. 36

5. juvenile ( ADJECTIVE / NOUN ) If you go back, they’re going to send you to Juvenile Hall. Chapter 5 p. 41

6. inedible ( ADJECTIVE ) … Archie had fixed tofu burgers that Jake had found so completely inedible he’d fed his in bits to the fat old basset hound under the table … Chapter 6 p. 42

7. exaggeration ( NOUN ) It wasn’t true, but is was no more of an exaggeration, he thought, than the story that everybody else had told. Chapter 6 p. 47

8. collided ( VERB ) Randolph stopped, and Cordelia collided with the CD player as he swung around to answer her. Chapter 6 p. 47

9. sentimental ( VERB ) “That show is dead boring!” she was saying. Randolph stopped, … “It’s the most saccharine, sentimental piece of tripe the two of them ever wrote.” Chapter 6 p. 47

10. careened ( VERB ) … there was a squeal of tires from the road. The Miata careened back around the line of trees, scattering gravel in all directions. Chapter 6 p. 51

11. deluge ( VERB / NOUN ) His words were all but drowned out in a fresh deluge of verbal abuse. Chapter 7 p. 53

12. brink ( NOUN ) He kept glancing down at the thoroughly crumpled front end of an ancient and rusty Civic as if it were the battered body of a beloved family member. He looked, E.D. thought, on the brink of tears. Chapter 7 p. 53

13. perpetuate ( VERB ) The Applewhite artistic dynasty and the home school designed to perpetuate it. Chapter 8 p. 66

14. invasion ( NOUN ) I know it would be an invasion of your privacy, but those of us who understand the importance of the arts owe it to the rest of America to give them a taste of what it’s all about. Chapter 8 p. 66

15. ferociously ( ADJECTIVE ) E.D. said nothing at all as they worked, but she crashed plates and glasses into each other so ferociously, Jake was surprised that nothing broke. Chapter 8 p. 67